• How to Protect your Eyes While Playing Sports

    According to Prevent Blindness America, hospital emergency rooms treat more than 40,000 sports-related eye injuries a year; and this doesn’t include eye injuries that don’t require an emergency room visit. Any sport with frequent body contact or flying objects…

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  • How Smoking Harms Your Vision

    With adverse health effects like heart disease and cancer, smoking is the single largest cause of disease and premature death in the U.S. The danger to the eyes may be less well known, but no less debilitating. Smoking increases the risk for developing a variety…

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  • What is Astigmatism?

    Astigmatism occurs when the eye loses its round shape to resemble the shape of a football or the back of a spoon. Like myopia (short-sightedness) or hypermetropia (far-sightedness), astigmatism is a refractive error, not a disease. Unlike myopia and hypermetropia,…

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  • Choosing the Right Eyeglasses for Your Face Shape

    There are many factors to consider when buying a new pair of eyeglasses, including style, shape, size and color. Harvey Moscot, owner of optical brand MOSCOT, recommends the following general tips: Contrast: Choose glasses that contrast the shape of your face….

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